Machine. A machine is not a man or a work of art; it is destructive of humanity and art. {Wm. Blake.} Machine. Inventions have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the arch-machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. {Emerson.} Machine. Liberty, with all its drawbacks, is everywhere vastly more attractive to a noble soul than good social order without it, than society like a flock of sheep, or a machine working like a watch. This mechanism makes of man only a product; liberty makes him the citizen of a better world. {Schiller.} Machine. Never forget St. Paul's sentence, 'Love is the fulfilling of the law.' This is the steam of the social machine; but the steam requires regulation; it is regulated by intelligence and moderation. {Prof. Blackie to young men.} Machine. The civilised nation consists broadly of mob, money-collecting machine, and capitalist; and when the mob wishes to spend money for any purpose, it sets its money-collecting machine to borrow the money it needs from the capitalist, who lends it on condition of taxing the mob generation after generation. {Ruskin.} Machinery. Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power, that is all. {Holmes.} Machinery. Neither painting nor fighting feed men; nor can capital, in the form of money or machinery, feed them. {Ruskin.} Mad. A mad world, my masters. {Middleton.} Mad. Are you marrying a wife, Posthumous? By what Fury, say, by what snakes are you driven mad? - Uxorem, Posthume, ducis? / Dic qua Tisiphone, quibus exagitare colubris {Juvenal.} Mad. Better mad with all the world than wise all alone. {French. Proverb.}
Based on the Dictionary of Quotations From Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources by Rev.James Woods, published originally in 1893 by Frederick Warne & Co
